formerphotoj

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by formerphotoj 9mo ago
I recommend artificial turf soccer fields. They're padded! They're flat. They're good for watching games, or people watching too. And you can pretend to be a winger or striker, constantly measuring the angle and distance to t
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by formerphotoj 1y ago
I don't mean to rain on your parade...just want to say enjoy it now, and remember it later. Good luck.
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by formerphotoj 1y ago
Yup, 64GB iPhone 11 Pro still going strong. A wee bit slow however, so...a new 17? Have to upgrade eventually.
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by formerphotoj 1y ago
Hence, the "dark forest" theory of the Internet is no longer theory.
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by formerphotoj 1y ago
I met him in a "Bark at the Moon" contest and shook his hand. Not sure he noticed, lol! Anyway, Bark at the Moon is one of his top songs! Here's howling in sorrow for you Ozzy, RIP.
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by formerphotoj 1y ago
I wish I had kept, and could still use, my brown plastic PowerBook...I forgot what model that was but...a brown laptop?!? It was soooo cool! :) Wish you could swap innards like you can swap engines with (some) cars.
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by formerphotoj 1y ago
Exactly this. The need to make money from a thing may well eliminate the value one derives from the thing, and even add negatives such as stress, etc.
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by formerphotoj 1y ago
And, "I'm not a cat." (Except sometimes maybe as a NPC)
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by formerphotoj 1y ago
And after the walk, talk with an intelligent human dialog partner to exchange ideas and concepts that illuminate the schemas. Heck, walk and talk together! :)
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by formerphotoj 1y ago
What's old is new again! :)
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by formerphotoj 1y ago
For more info on Lyme and related difficult to identify diseases, NYT columnist Ross Douhat wrote a book about his experience w/ Lyme and his ongoing adaptations. It's called... The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery
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by formerphotoj 1y ago
Agreed. We are now "back" to laws for thee but not for me.
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by formerphotoj 1y ago
Just want to say I LOVE the fact this word, and its meaning, is now in the public eye. Call 'em out! It's fun!
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by formerphotoj 1y ago
As we used to say, "two faces and a ball."
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by formerphotoj 2y ago
Irony! lol
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by formerphotoj 2y ago
Gary is harsh or extreme, even, but the point largely stands: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/what-if-generative-ai-turn... Personally I think there will be things that gen-AI is useful for, such as rapid education f
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by formerphotoj 2y ago
Also, from Sequoia: https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/ais-600b-question/ Sort of surprised this hasn't been taken down, actually.
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by formerphotoj 2y ago
As a kid, I didn't understand charisma. So I got a natural 18 for my D&D fighter, big deal. I'ma gonna run the goblins through with my long sword now... As an adult, I assess every person I meet through the charisma lens first
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by formerphotoj 2y ago
I get to "enjoy" low-frequency bass from musical events at a public park about a half mile away from my home. It sounds to me like someone in a car just outside my window, just one of those cars that go boom. Sadly, it's just
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by formerphotoj 2y ago
I sort of miss my Canon EOS 1 at 10 fps (film) when shooting sports. "If you saw it, you missed it."
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by formerphotoj 2y ago
Ambition, an elixir of youth for me, for so long. Then (of course!), the arc began to flatten, the sandwich (generation) turned out to be more than a foot-long, and, that thing I took for granted forever...health. This is where I think we h
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by formerphotoj 2y ago
OmniDiskSweeper (I know, not exactly the same thing, but still...)
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by formerphotoj 2y ago
100% - I used to sell/evangelize/promote/pitch the vision of the educational non-profit I used to work for every. single. day. to. every. single. person. Loved it, still do, and still storytelling at my current gig.
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by formerphotoj 2y ago
I've not lost a child and I don't "intend" to, so for me there's the vast investment in bringing them in, raising them up, and to lose both the past and future at the "wrong time"...astronomically heartbre
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by formerphotoj 2y ago
Great example, thanks. There must be realistic limits to scaling such models? Administrative, land to crop to member ratios, etc.? Exploitation/arbitrage must find its way in at some point where it becomes an economy... (Not trying to
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by formerphotoj 2y ago
THIS.
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by formerphotoj 2y ago
Just a side note: I hoped AirPlay was stable after so many years, but everyone may already know that AirPlay 2 is a change that at least in my use case, made all my old Macs running older macOS and AirPlay 1 incompatible with newer third pa
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by formerphotoj 2y ago
Thank you. Why I read HN!
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by formerphotoj 2y ago
One might go so far as to say in the real world (IRL), only a handful of people look good "naturally." Try looking at everyone around you in public-EVERYONE. The beautiful people in the media sense are an incredibly small minority
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by formerphotoj 2y ago
I'm having fun sounding this one out for myself! I like how it audibly bounces along via -ung -en -er -ei(eye) -ung and -al. Makes me wanna say, "Now That's Fahrvergnügen!" Or rather, Sprechenvergnügen?

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